If you use the Internet as part of your business, you've no doubt become frustrated with the limitations of browsers and accepting whatever existing services that are available from the websites you use. Businesses—who have discovered the power of webbots and spiders, create competitive advantages and making the Internet do what they want it to do.
 
 
 
Automate the Internet with webbots
After two years in development, Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers (2007, No Starch Press, San Francisco)   is the most comprehensive book ever written on webbot and spider development. This is the only book that explains both the technical aspects of webbot development as well as all the non-technical lessons culled from years of webbot development for clients.

The Internet is bigger and better than what a mere browser allows. Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers is for developers and business managers looking to unlock the competitive advantages of nontraditional online approaches. The book first outlines the limitations of browsers, and then explains how these deficiencies can be exploited with the design and deployment of task-specific webbots.

WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A CUSTOM WEBBOT OR SPIDER?
We have more ideas and standard offerings in our strategies section. Or, contact schrenk to discuss in person.

 

   
Webbots create freedom
Webbots and Spiders free you from browser limitations and create competitive advantages! For example, webbots and spiders:
  • Automate what you now do manually online
  • Combine resources from multiple websites, newsgroups, email accounts, etc.
  • Filter online content for relevance
  • Enforce your business rules and automatically act on your behalf

Webbots not only automate the Internet, but they also challenge old conventions of what’s possible online.

WHAT ELSE CAN WEBBOTS & SPIDERS DO?

  • Automate nearly any repetitive online activity,
  • Compare your online prices to those of your competitors,
  • Create an online "clipping service" for yourself, or your competition.
  • Receive real-time court records,
  • Monitor online auctions and automatically make "rules-based" bids,
  • Poll information from online appliances, and
  • Search for the Internet for inappropriate use of intellectual property